Ticket Quotas Target of Bill Duffy Co-Sponsored

A press release from State Senator Dan Duffy:

Ticket Quota Bill Passes Illinois Senate

A bill co-sponsored by State Senator Dan Duffy (R-Lake Barrington) that prohibits counties, municipalities, and state police from implementing ticket quotas overwhelmingly passed in the Illinois Senate and now moves over to the House for consideration.

“Police officers were not intended to be tax collectors focused on generating revenue,” said Duffy.

“Making sure that law enforcement officers don’t have to worry about meeting ticket quotas allows them to focus on serving and protecting Illinois’ communities.”

The bill was one of more than 100 pieces of legislation approved by the Senate last week.

Governor Quinn’s Continues to Break Promises

According to State Senator Dan Duffy (R-Lake Barrington) Illinois Governor Pat Quinn continues to break his promises to taxpayers.

“Governor Quinn promised three years ago that the Democrats 67% tax hike, the largest in state history, would be ‘temporary’ and now the governor wants to make that tax hike permanent.”

In the three years since the tax hike went into effect, Duffy has continuously informed constituents that the governor and his allies increased state spending on wasteful programs and corrupt appointments for political allies.

He noted they repeatedly ignored warnings from financial experts that significant spending cuts were needed to assure the 67% tax hike would be temporary.

Dan Duffy

Dan Duffy

“We’ve warned all along that there is no such thing as a ‘temporary’ tax increase,” said Duffy.

“This was always going to be permanent.

“The people of Illinois have been sold a false bill of goods.”

When the tax hike was implemented, the Governor and legislative Democrats promised it would:

  • Pay off old bills– it didn’t;
  • Generate jobs— it hasn’t;
  • Improve Illinois’ credit rating—it didn’t.

In fact, the bill backlog has increased and Illinois lags far behind its neighbors in economic growth. Of note:

  • Illinois has a bill backlog exceeding $6 billion—despite 2011 assurances by Democrats the tax increase would be used to pay down that backlog and get the state’s fiscal house in order.
  • Illinois has the second highest unemployment rate in the nation—higher than any neighboring state.
  • Illinois has the worst credit rating in the nation—the state has received 13 credit downgrades during Quinn’s tenure, more than all other Illinois Governors combined.

Senator Duffy is fighting for you in Springfield!

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Ticket Quotas Target of Bill Duffy Co-Sponsored — 4 Comments

  1. Senator Duffy is one of the very few in Springfield who has common sense & a brain unlike our local pols!

    He’ll always answer an email and is really fighting for the people of Illinois.

    We need more like him and he needs us to keep on top of the Illinois charade.

  2. This is ridiculous.

    A CADC told me years ago that quotas are illegal and you’re saying they aren’t?

    Wouldn’t surprise me if they were, but that’s just disgusting.

    This was the last state to have a ban on filming police and last state with a ban on any type of gun carry.

    The state actually wasn’t even smart enough to figure out those were problems, so the Supreme Court helped them out.

  3. Actually, Sen. Duffy doesn’t always answer email.

    Following publicity about this bill, I wrote to him, expressing gratitude about no quotas.

    He didn’t reply.

    Will this mean that cops can write as many tickets as they want?

    I encouraged him to advocate for PhotoRadar.

    Speeding will never be controlled by writing one ticket at a time.

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